Job Description:

Consulting Architect/Sr.Consultant Professional Services – Application & Network Security (ANS)

Job Title: Consulting Architect/Sr.Consultant

Division: ANS

Practice Area: PSO

The Role (Security)

The VMware by Broadcom (VMW by BC) Professional Services Organization (PSO) is looking for an experienced & motivated Consulting Architect/Sr.Consultant role with specialization in Applications & Network Security. PSO influences the success of all projects by advising, architecting, coordinating, designing, and implementing fully functional technology solutions that meet our customers’ business needs while delivering a superior customer experience.

The Consulting Architect/Sr.Consultant is a senior technical position requiring excellent interpersonal/listening skills, complex problem solving, big picture thinking and solution articulation. With a clear and agreed upon client vision, you will be responsible for scoping a solution to realize the vision.

The ideal candidate will partner with customers, VMW by BC sales for pre-sales support, Worldwide Consulting Centers (WWCC) and several other teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient security solutions that address customer business problems and accelerates time to value.

Teamwork is critically important to success in the role, as is creating and leveraging a strong network amongst your peers and internal/external teams. You should be ready to take ownership of initiatives and programs to aid in the delivery of customer solutions. The ideal resource will have a good mix of technical skills, business acumen, and a strong desire to delight our customers.

As a trusted customer advocate, you required to have a broad understanding of Application & Network Security concepts, industry standards around security frameworks and their applicability, current challenges, risk trends and solutions in the market space. You are expected to to help shape and execute strategies for complex security requirements for our customers using a broad array of VMW by BC and third-party products, methodologies, processes & tools to meet customers’ requirements around homogeneous and heterogeneous environments.

The Consulting Architect/Sr.Consultant must have a broad knowledge of VMW by BC product stack, how those technologies work together to a solution, and how to secure those solutions to build a secure, zero-trust, micro-segmented platform.

The ideal candidate must be driven with a proven track record in software/technology consulting skills and possess hands on experience in two or more of the focus areas

• designing and deploying Network Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Threat monitoring and mitigation solutions
• Load balancers (Local traffic manager, GSLB, WAF etc)
• Experience with VMware technologies like vSphere, Distributed Firewall, AVI Load Balancer is highly desired.

The Consulting Architect/Sr.Consultant should maintain his or her knowledge of current security standards, threat identification and mitigation, and best practices. Ideal candidates are likely to work in projects that necessitate security clearances. Candidates who possessed such security clearances in the past are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional BC-VMW teams to architect, design and deploy Security solutions to customers.
• Developing comprehensive security strategies & architectures such as Zero Trust for customers in green field and brown field environments. Design technical and policy driven solutions based on approved strategy.
• Devising delivery approaches and roadmaps that can help customers realize their future state vision on Security. Adept in leading a team of SME’s in executing these roadmaps.
• You will be responsible for scoping the solution and supporting conceptual design/client proposal generation. This includes estimation of effort calculations, defining service descriptions, risk identification/mitigation and drafting detailed work packages
• Take ownership and accountability for programs or projects that you will be leading. Work as part of a wider program team or independently act subject matter expert on ANS Security projects.
• Where applicable, identify and develop use cases into high-quality solutions in the ANS Security area that can be packaged as repeatable solutions.
• Assist in the development/refinement of our service offerings as well as content, best practices, and white papers in the security domain.
• Participate actively in developing the ANS security practice by bringing together thought leadership & industry experience.
• Practice contributions span activities such as presenting to internal audiences, working with the BC-VMW Security Business Units on potential product issues or opportunities
• Actively demonstrate commercial awareness and stay within the scope of the contracted work.

Pre-Requisites

• Minimum 12+ years overall experience in IT Security space with a minimum of 3-4 years of hands-on experience on delivering ANS security projects for large enterprises.
• Maintain current, high-level technical knowledge of the entire BC-VMW product portfolio and future product direction and expert level knowledge of the ANS Security.
• Should possess recent, real-world experience in large, complex security implementation in a senior technical leadership role.
• Should have interacted with the C suite executives in developing and driving a security vision.
• Should be able to provide technical leadership and quality oversight on projects that involves ANS Security and have a fair grasp of enterprise networking concepts and experience in networking tools such as NSX & CISCO.
• Should have extensive experience and demonstrate knowledge in information security, risk management, cryptography, authentication methods, security protocols, and data analytics.
• Good oral and written communications skills, strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to interact efficiently with a large Project Management Office and other technical teams. Gather lessons Learned and lead the Lessons Learned review with the client.

Certification and Education

• A degree (MS preferred) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Security, or related field highly preferred.
• Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) or higher certification
• VMware VCAP level certification
• vCDX, CCNA (desirable)
• CISA – certified information system auditor(desirable)
• CRISC – certified risk and information systems control(desirable)

We promote an inclusive atmosphere where your voice will be heard, and where you will be part of a dynamic team working in partnership with each other. We are looking for conscientious and responsible individuals who can build on our successful track record and come with us on the next stage of our journey.